Echo Bodine Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
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I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
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For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.
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I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
